Come Fish Alaska With Us This Summer Every year 3-4 million salmon move up the Alagnak River and swim right past the Alaska Trophy Adventures lodge. The lodge sits in one of the best locations imaginable on the Alagnak River, deep inside Katmai National Park, and is only accessible by plane. We have openings starting the week of July 19th and running through September 15th at an unbeatable discounted rate. Keegan Kliman | May 8, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO: First Ever Backflip Pond Crossing Last spring, Ben Pichotti became the first person to ever successfully complete a 360º pond crossing at the Cushing Crossing at Squaw Valley, USA. This year, a skier successfully completed a backflip pond crossing at the Alyeska pond crossing. It does make us wonder what’s next? Rodeo flip pond crossing? 720º pond crossing? Pond crossings very well may likely take on a life of their own and start catering to tricks and build better jumps as this one in Alyeska had. We’ll see. A skier successfully completed a backflip pond crossing […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2015 0 Comments
Republican Senate Votes to Sell National Forests A week ago, all but 3 Republican Senators voted for an amendment that could result in public land being sold into private hands. Amendment SA 838 was introduced to allow states to take over, transfer and sell public, federal lands, including National Forests, wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas. Proposed by a circus of Senators cramming every possible amendment into a Republican-sponsored budget, the amendment carries no weight of law. However, the budget is used to bring attention to issues, forcing Senators to take a public stance […] Featured Article ameliatraynor | April 10, 2015 31 Comments
Alyeska Conditions Report: April Pow Days! “Better late than never”, was the phrase most used, as today was easily Alyeska’s best powder day of the season. So far the last part of March and almost everyday in April has been the best powder days of the season till today. Today was the most substantial with over a foot of “Alaskan low density snow” that fell on the upper mountain. It was not the day to miss out on! And just in time for the spring carnival this weekend! It was a classic weekday storm day at Alyeska, which means nobody on the hill and plenty of fresh snow till closing at 6pm. There was about 20 people standing in line at chair four […] Conditions Report Scott Rich | April 9, 2015 0 Comments
VIDEO: One Run in Alaska with Points North Heli Last Week Alaska heli season is in full swing right now. Alaska has had a funky year, but the lower tide makes for better features. The snow has shown up in March and left April in fine shape. This video is from last week near Cordova with Points North Heli :Essex Prescott took out the prestigious Shane McConkey Award for his performance at the 2014 World Heli Challenge in Aoraki/Mt Cook NZ and here he enjoys the spoils of his prize on a line in Tappas and Illusions at Points North Heli, Cordova Alaska.” SnowBrains will be reporting from […] SnowBrains | April 3, 2015 0 Comments
Legendary Telluride, CO Guide Dies in Alaskan Avalanche/Fall Mountain guide Peter Inglis for Ultima Thule Lodge deep in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (as large as Switzerland) died after taking a bad fall while skiing. The exact details of this incident are unclear at this time, but here is what is being reported: Peter was standing on a cornice at about 7,000-feet when the cornice broke or Peter fell through the cornice. Peter fell down the slope below and did not survive the accident. Peter may have died from the fall or may have been buried in an avalanche resulting from the cornice break and fall. […] Avalanche SnowBrains | April 3, 2015 1 Comment
VIDEO: Winning Run from the Alaska Freeride World Tour Stop 21-year-old American George Rodney won the Alaska Freeride World Tour stop today in Haines, AK. He ski a great line, went big, and nearly took a nasty fall. He ends up on one leg after his first air and somehow pulls it back together just in time to send his next huge cliff and stomp it. George Rodney is a rookie on the tour. He won that last stop in Andorra as well as this one and is currently in first place on the tour going into the final event in Verbier Switzerland. He ski a great line, went big, and nearly took a nasty fall. He ends up on one leg after his first air and somehow pulls it back together just in time to send his […] SnowBrains | March 23, 2015 0 Comments
What Happened to “Winter” in Alaska This Year? | NOAA Report: Winter ended up being a relative term in Alaska this year. Alaska as a whole averaged 4-10ºF above average this winter. That caused precipitation to fall in many areas as rain, not snow. Not good. This past winter in Alaska will end up ranking in the top 10 warmest on record. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Washington just observed their warmest winters on record… Here is NOAA’s take on what happened to “Winter” in Alaska this year: It has been a topsy-turvy winter for much of the contiguous United States. The divide between record warmest and much below-average could not be any more stark. In the eastern US, for […] Weather SnowBrains | March 19, 2015 3 Comments
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